Grace Under Pressure.

"It's like these guys take pride in being ignorant! They think it's funny that they're making fun of something that's true." I'll be honest: If it seems like political news has taken something of a backseat around here of late, it's mainly because the recent developments on the campaign trail -- tire gauges, Paris Hilton, and the like -- just seem so inordinately stupid to me, not to mention so woefully desperate by the McCain campaign, that I've had trouble mustering up the level of outrage to even post about them. That being said, Sen. Obama's still on his game, and -- in a few arch sentences -- he's made the mythical maverick and his bewildered GOP shock-troops look as ridiculous as they should.

Really, this election shouldn't even be close. McCain's shrill, doddering, and nonsensical campaign notwithstanding, I just can't believe that the good people of this country will turn to the GOP again, after barely scraping through the Dubya years. And, summer polls aside, I'm still feeling very confident that November will witness an Obama-headed Dem deluge. (By way of colleagues at Peasants Under Glass and The Late Adopter.)